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People & EventsAdrian Russell has relinquished the role as Head of the JCMT Instrumentation Programme Management Group and taken up the awe- inspiring position as UK Project Manager for Gemini. Adrian joined ROE in 1986 and was promptly shipped out to Hawaii to partake of the chaos surrounding the birth of the JCMT. He went on secondment from ROE to the MPE group in Garching and was a major force in the integration of RxG with the JCMT systems. In 1992 he returned to ROE to take on the newly formed post of Head of the IPMG.Alex McLachlan MBE retired on November 11th after a magnificent 34 years of service to ROE. Alex joined in 1960 as a photographer, was cajoled in 1977 to journeying with his family to the other side of the world to set up the UKIRT (both the telescope and the Hilo base in Leilani Street). On his return to ROE Alex became involved with the home end section of the JCMT. In recent years he has been the 'keeper' of the JCMT Development Fund and of the JCMT Archive. Indeed it was Alex who started off JCMT newsletters with a wee production called 'Protostar' which ran to 10 issues. He has been the administration behind the UK Service observing programme on the JCMT and managed to fulfil a role as ROE Safety Officer in addition. Douglas 'Chase' Reed has joined the JAC as Observatory Electrician. Chase had already been living on the Big Island for some 9 years and was interested in the strange domes on top of Mauna Kea. Now he has plenty opportunity to take a couple of them to bits as long as he remembers how to re- assemble them afterwards. Nigel Atkins has joined the JAC as Head of the JCMT Instrument Support Group. Nigel was dragged away from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Ian Pain has taken on the post of mechanical Engineer at the JAC. Ian was recruited from Vickers Engineering. Bill McCutcheon is taking a sabbatical at the JCMT for a year. Bill has been a prolific user of JCMT observing time over the years and has just rotated off membership of the JCMT Board. David Belton arrived before the New Year for a four month stay. He is a co-op student from the University of Victoria (Canada), a third year undergraduate, hired by NRC for his work term. David will work on data analysis, reduction, interpreting, etc. Congratulations to Evelyne and Nick Rees on the birth of Samuel Scott who arrived on 7th November 1994 weighing in at 8 lb. 14.5 oz. Congratulations also to Nicole and Darrel DeCambra on the birth of Nicholas Wayne who arrived on 26th January 1995 weighing 8 lb. 9 oz.
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